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Preview: Colleague Henry Sokolski comments on the weaponizing of LEO. More

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Henry Sokolski comments on the weaponizing of LEO. More1952

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0:00.0

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0:23.1

you buy two tubs. All trade prices XVAT at 20%. So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the

0:29.2

Evanses. This is John Batchel. Weapons in space, specifically in low Earth orbit for starters, but

0:36.0

the Earth-moon system is readily at hand.

0:39.3

Henry Sikolsky, non-proliferation policy education center, my colleague comments on different reports.

0:45.5

The French with an anti-satellite weapon, maybe.

0:48.5

The Russians definitely with an anti-satellite weapon,

0:51.0

experimenting with using a nuclear weapon in space.

0:54.1

And the Americans, where is the U.S. an anti-satellite weaponry?

0:58.6

Henry Sikoski explains, and how you use an anti-satellite satellite?

1:04.1

More of this tonight.

1:06.0

No, no, no.

1:06.8

Let me correct and amend my comment.

1:11.2

I don't think the United States is interested in putting a nuclear weapon in space,

1:15.8

but it is very interested and more vocal and open about having offensive operations in space,

1:23.2

much like what I sent you and what you just described,

1:27.5

which is to get a single satellite close to another single satellite

1:32.6

and play mischief either disabling its antennas or its sensors,

1:40.3

moving it or defueling it.

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